Treasure:A Rip Squeak Book (Rip Squeak and Friends) - Hardcover

Filgate, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0974782513 ISBN 13: 9780974782515

Publisher: Raven Tree Press, 2005

Synopsis

Rip Squeak and his friends set off on a maiden voyage aboard their sailing ship and soon find themselves adrift in a mysterious fog. This is the third book in the Rip Squeak series.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Yost-Filgate grew up in Pennsylvania and received a bachelor's degree in art education from the Pennsylvania State University. Before co-creating the Rip Squeak series with her husband, illustrator, Leonard Filgate, Susan was involved in graphic design, brand licensing, law, education, and writing. This is her first published book.

Illustrator, Leonard Filgate is a self-trained artist. He grew up in San Francisco, California and has been working as a fine artist and illustrator since 1970. In 1997 he began to create the world of RIP SQUEAK® and his art is now known and collected around the world. He has been honored with many accolades, including a one-man major exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.

The Filgates currently reside in California's Central Valley.

Review

Here is a handsome young mouse who lives with several buddies in a vacation cottage. Euripides, a frog and actor, arrives in tricorn and brass buttons to read everyone some pirate stories. . . And soon all head off on a whiskers-and-warts search for what's at the spot marked X. Here's the one you read to your youngest and let them study Leonard Filgate's loving illustrations. --CNN.com

This book is outstanding on every level! A lovely story, rich with detail and characters children will fall in LOVE with. And the illustrations--if you like Graeme Base, or any of the other masters of children's illustration today, and you haven't seen the work of Leonard Filgate, you're missing out big time. Get this book! It continues to delight and charm and entertain, read after read after read. I predict this book will become a classic, and readers will see a lot more of this talented husband and wife team. --An Amazon Customer Review

What We Thought: The warm and lovely paintings in the book make Rip and his friends nearly walk off the page. Big-eared and bright-eyed, the little mouse brother and sister are perfect surrogate selves for small children who like to be adventurous, but still want to stay safe, and surrounded by friends and family. Parents will have a great opportunity to create real and funny characters as they enact the hammy frog Euripides, the cautious kitty Abby, ebullient little Rip and sentimental Jesse, along with their new friends.

Why They ll Want It: Kids will probably wish that Rip Squeak were real, so they could cuddle up with him in bed as Mom and Dad read about his adventures. The paintings are fully of lovely details to keep kids engaged and bring them into Rip s make-believe world. Children will appreciate how well the friends get along, and that the treasure they find is something that can send the gang onto new adventures. They ll especially appreciate the moral of the story, which is that the best treasure of all is wonderful friends. --Alison Marek, Toy Directory Monthly

Edition details

• Publisher: Raven Tree Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974782513
• ISBN 13: 9780974782515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 32